Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 182 149
Rank change year-on-year -94 -33 -6
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 852 1,887 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.00% 2.02% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.11% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 627 882 1,388
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,604
25th Percentile £48,250 £57,500 £52,429
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,964 £91,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,956 89,282 125,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.89% 95.65% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 52,696 73,771
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -150 237 £82,500 +2.75% 116
North of England +35 232 £61,206 +2.01% 39
North West +27 152 £60,603 -3.04% 18
South East -6 139 £45,000 -33.33% 26
South West -44 107 £63,750 -8.93% 32
Midlands -16 77 £61,206 -12.56% 21
Yorkshire +77 60 £61,206 +2.01% 15
East of England +16 51 £80,001 +39.13% 18
West Midlands +6 48 £61,206 -12.56% 11
East Midlands -19 29 £75,000 +7.14% 10
North East -9 20 £61,206 +28.39% 6
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (5.75%) Apache
2 36 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.29%) WebLogic
4 14 (1.64%) nginx
5 13 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.53%) Confluence
6 11 (1.29%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.94%) Apache Pig
7 8 (0.94%) Drupal
8 7 (0.82%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) IIS
9 4 (0.47%) OpenZeppelin
10 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (3.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.94%) Shopify
3 6 (0.70%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 336 (39.44%) AWS
2 276 (32.39%) Azure
3 115 (13.50%) Serverless
4 87 (10.21%) GCP
5 70 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (8.10%) Amazon SQS
6 69 (8.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (7.51%) OpenShift
8 52 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 42 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.11%) GitHub
13 33 (3.87%) SaaS
14 21 (2.46%) IaaS
15 19 (2.23%) PaaS
16 17 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.88%) dbt
18 12 (1.41%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.22%) DNS
2 48 (5.63%) Firewall
2 48 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 42 (4.93%) BGP
4 36 (4.23%) SSL
5 24 (2.82%) AMQP
6 21 (2.46%) LAN
6 21 (2.46%) WAN
7 18 (2.11%) HTTP
8 15 (1.76%) VPN
9 14 (1.64%) Internet
9 14 (1.64%) MPLS
10 10 (1.17%) DHCP
11 8 (0.94%) Network Security
12 7 (0.82%) DWDM
12 7 (0.82%) EIGRP
12 7 (0.82%) OSPF
12 7 (0.82%) SMTP
12 7 (0.82%) SNMP
12 7 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.92%) Relational Database
2 68 (7.98%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (7.16%) NoSQL
4 57 (6.69%) RDBMS
5 52 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.87%) Big Data
7 49 (5.75%) Oracle Database
8 46 (5.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (5.05%) MySQL
10 38 (4.46%) Hadoop
11 24 (2.82%) Cloudera CDH
12 23 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.58%) SQL Server
14 18 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.41%) MongoDB
16 9 (1.06%) Apache Hive
16 9 (1.06%) MariaDB
16 9 (1.06%) Power BI
17 8 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 112 (13.15%) Git
2 103 (12.09%) Jenkins
3 88 (10.33%) GitLab
4 36 (4.23%) Artifactory
5 21 (2.46%) JDeveloper
6 19 (2.23%) JIRA
7 16 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.64%) JUnit
9 12 (1.41%) Subversion
10 11 (1.29%) Selenium
11 10 (1.17%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.17%) GNU Toolchain
11 10 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.06%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.94%) Checkstyle
14 6 (0.70%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.59%) Clang
15 5 (0.59%) JMeter
General
1 233 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.50%) Finance
3 50 (5.87%) Public Sector
4 40 (4.69%) Front Office
5 38 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.05%) Banking
9 25 (2.93%) Aerospace
10 24 (2.82%) Retail
11 23 (2.70%) Games
12 22 (2.58%) Automotive
12 22 (2.58%) Marketing
13 18 (2.11%) Law
14 9 (1.06%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.94%) Publishing
16 7 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.59%) Advertising
18 4 (0.47%) Digital Economy
18 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (20.77%) Senior
2 163 (19.13%) Developer
3 158 (18.54%) Software Engineer
4 149 (17.49%) Architect
5 146 (17.14%) Lead
6 73 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
6 73 (8.57%) Technical Leader
7 52 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 43 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
9 43 (5.05%) Senior Architect
10 42 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
11 41 (4.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 40 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 38 (4.46%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 38 (4.46%) Technical Architect
14 33 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (3.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 30 (3.52%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.40%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (16.08%) React
2 114 (13.38%) Node.js
3 87 (10.21%) Spring Boot
4 70 (8.22%) REST
5 54 (6.34%) Spring
6 52 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
7 50 (5.87%) AngularJS
8 45 (5.28%) J2EE
9 44 (5.16%) HTML
10 41 (4.81%) Kafka
11 33 (3.87%) PyTorch
12 32 (3.76%) .NET
13 31 (3.64%) TensorFlow
14 27 (3.17%) CSS
15 24 (2.82%) gRPC
15 24 (2.82%) Material-UI
15 24 (2.82%) OpenAPI
15 24 (2.82%) Swagger
16 21 (2.46%) Express.js
16 21 (2.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.98%) Public Cloud
2 84 (9.86%) Private Cloud
3 79 (9.27%) Self-Motivation
4 73 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 53 (6.22%) Cloud Native
6 43 (5.05%) Algorithms
6 43 (5.05%) Tandem
7 39 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (3.87%) Embedded Systems
10 32 (3.76%) Blockchain
11 27 (3.17%) Data Centre
11 27 (3.17%) Product Ownership
12 25 (2.93%) IoT
13 22 (2.58%) Blog
14 20 (2.35%) Data Structures
15 19 (2.23%) Client/Server
16 17 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
17 15 (1.76%) Life Science
17 15 (1.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 227 (26.64%) Linux
2 60 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (4.93%) Unix
4 39 (4.58%) Windows
5 38 (4.46%) Ubuntu
6 36 (4.23%) Debian
7 34 (3.99%) CentOS
8 9 (1.06%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.82%) Android
9 7 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.47%) VMS
13 1 (0.12%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.12%) Rocky
13 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (52.11%) Agile
2 362 (42.49%) Software Engineering
3 242 (28.40%) DevOps
4 209 (24.53%) Mentoring
5 201 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
6 177 (20.77%) Coaching
7 170 (19.95%) CI/CD
8 156 (18.31%) Continuous Integration
9 149 (17.49%) Microservices
10 144 (16.90%) Actionable Insight
11 139 (16.31%) Scrum
12 133 (15.61%) Containerisation
13 128 (15.02%) Full Stack Development
14 120 (14.08%) Decision-Making
15 116 (13.62%) Collaborative Working
16 115 (13.50%) Kanban
17 105 (12.32%) Computer Science
18 99 (11.62%) Project Management
19 89 (10.45%) Roadmaps
20 84 (9.86%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 345 (40.49%) Python
2 313 (36.74%) Java
3 161 (18.90%) JavaScript
4 115 (13.50%) C
5 96 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 95 (11.15%) Go
7 87 (10.21%) SQL
8 81 (9.51%) Bash
9 74 (8.69%) C++
10 43 (5.05%) C#
11 36 (4.23%) Ruby
11 36 (4.23%) Rust
12 31 (3.64%) PHP
13 29 (3.40%) COBOL
13 29 (3.40%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 28 (3.29%) PowerShell
15 27 (3.17%) Perl
16 22 (2.58%) Embedded C
17 14 (1.64%) Fortran
18 11 (1.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 213 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 160 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 157 (18.43%) Degree
4 49 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 34 (3.99%) DV Cleared
6 34 (3.99%) Master's Degree
7 32 (3.76%) AWS Certification
8 30 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (3.52%) PhD
9 8 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.82%) CCNA
11 5 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.23%) GCIA
13 2 (0.23%) GCIH
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.12%) GCFA
14 1 (0.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.52%) PMO
2 44 (5.16%) QA
3 15 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.70%) NCSC
6 5 (0.59%) NIST
7 3 (0.35%) GDPR
8 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 154 (18.08%) Docker
2 19 (2.23%) Virtual Servers
3 11 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.06%) Firmware
6 8 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.94%) HDFS
7 7 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.23%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) Shibboleth
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Xen
11 1 (0.12%) LXC
11 1 (0.12%) Postfix
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 158 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 99 (11.62%) Terraform
3 79 (9.27%) Ansible
4 50 (5.87%) Puppet
5 36 (4.23%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.06%) Grafana
7 8 (0.94%) Kibana
8 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 5 (0.59%) Kiali
9 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.47%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Consul
11 3 (0.35%) Nessus
11 3 (0.35%) Podman
12 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.23%) Marathon
12 2 (0.23%) Mesos
12 2 (0.23%) Nagios
12 2 (0.23%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 67 (7.86%) Google
2 54 (6.34%) Oracle
3 53 (6.22%) Microsoft
4 29 (3.40%) Micro Focus
4 29 (3.40%) Red Hat
5 28 (3.29%) Sparx
6 24 (2.82%) SaltStack
7 20 (2.35%) Cisco
8 12 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 12 (1.41%) Juniper
8 12 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.41%) VMware
9 10 (1.17%) Splunk
10 8 (0.94%) Apple
10 8 (0.94%) ESRI
10 8 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.82%) Arista
11 7 (0.82%) CheckPoint
11 7 (0.82%) Tufin
12 6 (0.70%) F5